Sentences with phrase «skews the results for»

California skews the results for that region.

Not exact matches

Yeo explained that you need to prepare someone's finger for this process to make sure blood is flowing, but if you end up squeezing the finger too hard or have to prick it too many times, that may damage and break down cells — and this cellular damage could skew various test results.

The European Union has slapped Google with a record - breaking fine of $ 2.7 billion for skewing search results in its favor, hurting rivals.

One off abnormalities in results or earnings, for example, can temporarily skew valuation ratios.

One factor that could have skewed this year's results was that last year's Prime Day was for 24 rather than 30 hours, and included fewer countries.

Among other things, we are concerned about the potential for manipulation by individuals or groups who wish to skew the rating results.

«Respect for authority, tradition, station, and education eroded,» writes Hatch, and as a result, «American Protestantism has been skewed away from central ecclesiastical institutions and high culture; it has been pushed and pulled into its present shape by a democratic or populist orientation.»

For one, does not privileging any particular book in the Bible result in a skewed theological orientation?

The vote was almost evenly split among Protestants in non-mainline churches, which Barna says is a result skewed by the fact that more than 90 percent of blacks voted for Gore.

Blend: My blend is heavily bean - based, which likely skewed the results, but these I would only use for savory.

The results for the few food group intakes that were dichotomized before the heritability analysis, such as for infant formula milk and fruit juice, should not be overinterpreted because there are several indications that they might be an artifact: small numbers of pairs with at least one consumer for formula milk (15 %) and other beverages (13 %) made their distributions extremely positively skewed, and the reduced variation in the data due to dichotomizing these variables compromises power and accuracy of the parameters, therefore limiting interpretation.

Arsenal made it hard for themselves last night against a team that never wins in the game in the Champions League Group Stages, but Arsene Wenger reckons that the result was skewed by poor refereeing, including the first goal and Giroud's sending off.

This was important to add because many of the results were skewed by teams like South Carolina Upstate, Binghamton, Mercer, and other small conference schools that don't typically have odds posted for their games.

As for the players, contrary to the general opinion which is often skewed by the results of other clubs, there has been an improvement in all areas of the pitch.

Luckily for the visiting Terriers, Jonjo Shelvey skewed his resulting effort way wide of the target.

Declercq said one problem with relying on this study is the results may have been skewed because the researchers relied on the location the birth was planned for rather than where it actually took place.

Is this open for intentional gaming (via tactical voting) or unintentional skewing of the results towards a film or location, where the winning result does not match most people's preferences?

Yet it made elementary errors, such as counting every listing, even inactive ones and those rented for just a few nights a year, as a home «kept off the market» — wildly skewing the results.

«If we can not get relief in the process, we will go to the courts, and we will go to the final, final round, to ensure every vote... is counted, so that tomorrow, when the senior citizen or the young voter goes to the polls, they can be reassured that this democratic process works for them and not that it is rigged, or perhaps that there are backroom strategists put in place to prevent them from voting or to skew the results.»

The Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn has called on the party to root out people voting for him in a bid to to skew the election result.

I'd hazard a guess poll conducted in the week after Hilary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee, is going to skew results simply because the question «ready now a female president» could easily be conflated with «ready for Hilary Clinton as president» for a portion of either party's voters.

But it seems implausible that they have done so in sufficient numbers to account for Corbyn's popularity, let alone to skew the result of the election.

Virtually everyone also agrees that New York's teacher evaluation system is not accurate and is skewed in its construction to provide favorable results for teachers.

Obviously polls like this do pose a risk of any old person pretending to be a party member to skew the results, or getting a very skewed group of activists, but the polls of Conservative party members done by Tim Montgomerie over on ConservativeHome did get their leadership election right, so we do at least have a precedent for a website running polls of party members in this way and getting good results.

After accounting for factors like age, race, medications and socioeconomic status, which could skew the results, they looked for patterns that suggested links between mental illness and infection rates.

During analysis of the trial results, I was concerned that important data were being omitted from the papers being prepared for publication, and that the data presented were inaccurate and skewed in favour of the device.

Since anyone in Washington can file for divorce in the two counties, the researchers thought they would skew the results — specifically, they figured filings might peak more quickly after the holidays, given the simpler process.

Google, for instance, has attracted the scrutiny of the US Federal Trade Commission, which last month launched an antitrust investigation to determine whether the company's search results skew towards businesses with which it is aligned and away from its competitors.

He explains that it has become all too easy for some researchers to misrepresent their results, enhancing DNA bands in a gel, for example, or scrubbing out background blemishes, either to innocently make images look better or, in some cases, to skew the results deliberately.

For example, she points out, it does not account for the number of questions on a survey, the number of respondents, nor other factors that can skew the resulFor example, she points out, it does not account for the number of questions on a survey, the number of respondents, nor other factors that can skew the resulfor the number of questions on a survey, the number of respondents, nor other factors that can skew the results.

Other elements that could skew the results include differences in trial entry criteria and patient characteristics, and that these results may not apply to people who did not qualify for the trials.

The queen then sought out the larger cells and, on average, laid nearly three times as many drone eggs as usual, apparently making up for the skewed hive gender ratio that resulted from her incarceration, the researchers report in the November / December issue of Behavioural Ecology.

The particular model Park and his colleagues used, she said, is not specifically designed for the Arctic, where a number of factors could skew the results.

Bottom line: It's easy to skew the results (by not following pretest guidelines like drinking a glass of water, for example, or by not sitting perfectly still).

Though Dr. Solomon and his colleagues used statistical techniques to divide the participants into three closely matched groups, they did not explicitly control for characteristics such as alcohol consumption, smoking, and over-the-counter medication use, which could skew the results.

This skewed the results, and for a long time, people suffered from misdiagnosis.

Of course, if the client does not follow hair sampling instructions correctly, the results can be skewed, for instance if they use a dandruff shampoo with zinc.

Getting strong reviews, 75 - year - old Lily Tomlin's Grandma from Sony Pictures Classics scored $ 30,000 a screen on four screens, while 55 - year - old Patricia Clarkson's Learning To Drive, which she spent nine years trying to bring to the screen, did about half that — still a great result for a much older - skewing drama that even featured its star in a tantric sex scene no less.

That small membership means it's known for being unpredictable, and it's sometimes accused of letting publicity and favors skew the results.

He said the project did not study whether evaluations used for high - stakes decisions will cause teachers to cheat, change what they teach or take other actions that could skew the results.

The practice of academies that exclude pupils to skew their results and claim «rapid improvements» is set to be stamped out under reforms that will keep schools accountable for the grades of excluded youngsters.

Today, using Star 360, we can ensure the same testing - environment experience for every student and eliminate that as a factor in skewing results.

There are obvious ranges of human response to stress, but undeniably lower incomes will skew to poorer school results and a sensible society concerned for the future lives of all its citizens should employ resources to counteract this.

When I announced the survey and asked for authors to participate, I knew the results would be heavily skewed toward SF / F writers in my network.

It's not been long enough to get a really good picture of what the new KU payouts will bring, and my July month - to - date results are skewed by the fact that I ran a free BookBub promotion July 3 - 7 (Note: 34077 free downloads) for Swindle Town, Book 5 in my Gen Delacourt Mystery Series.

So, if you want skewed results, this is the investment for you.

We clearly need to do some refinement of the data to see whether a few categories are highly resilient (for example, single - state muni bond funds might never change their star ratings) and, thus, skewing the results.

This resulted in a list skewed toward cities in rural regions, which for some people is less than ideal.

The reason for this is that most are young start - ups or highly volatile companies, and as a result, it can skew some of the other measures that I like to screen by.

More people can participate in markets than try out for the NBA, so that would skew the results.